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Personal data

• Name CALLISTER
• Initials RJ
• First name ROBERT JOSEPH
• Place of birth Douglas
• Country Isle of Man
• Family Son of Thomas and Eleanor Callister, of 9, Kingswood Grove, Douglas, Isle of Man.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Liverpool
• Service number 2330
• Rank Serjeant
• Medals D C M, M S M, Mentioned in Despatches
• Regiment and unit 148th Brigade Royal Field Artillery "A" Bty.
• Army - Corps - Division 30th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career DCM 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to
  duty. Their guns had to be man-handled
  over 100 yards of soft and broken groundunder the most intense shell fire. They set
  a splendid example of courage, and it was
  mainly due to their example that these guns
  were withdrawn, although the last gun had
  to be man-handled nearly 150 yards under
  heavy machine-gun and rifle fire at close
  range.'

Death

• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 29 April 1918
• Died at the age of 33
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVIII - E - 7A

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